The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 03, 1919, Page 4, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED APRIL, 1891.
Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C.
Entered as second-class matter April
1891, under Act of March 3, 1879.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
Volume 28. No. 27.
Thursdey, July 3, 1919.
A BAMBERG WHITE WAV.
That the commissioners or public
works plan to have a "white way"' in
Bamberg was a pleasant announcement.
Folks here, especially the
younger ones whose future is still
before them, long to see Bamberg
take a strong and decided step forward.
The old town has been here
for a long time, and it will probably
be here a long time yet, even though
the streets never get paved and attractive
lights are never placed on
Main street. Many men have made
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money here with the town just as it
is, and many will doubtless continue
to make it, whether the town makes
real progress or not. But, while we
are living here, why not make the
town attractive and beautiful? It
makes no difference whether anybody
ever makes a cent more money or
not. People pay thousands of dollars
to have attractive homes to live
in. We have but one life to live;
let's get all out of it we can. All
of us will swell our chests with pride
when we can stroll down Main street,
with attractive walks and paved roadway,
under the rays of attractive
street lights. Now won't we?
COUNTY ROAD SYSTEMS.
We all feel that a real start has
been made in permanent road construction
in Bamberg county since
the contractor has begun work on the
highway from Edisto river to Salkehatchie
rivfer. Bamberg has about
as good roads as any county in the
State; in fact we have better i;oads
than most counties,. but that is not
saying so very much, Still, we think
the county handling its own road
problems to be the best solution. The
State highway project of building a
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few hundred miles of concrete or macadam
roads at an expense of many
millions of dollars would serve to |
benefit the various counties very little.
What we need is a general system
of good roads, and in our opinion
the best way to get such a sys\
tem is for each county to build its
own highways, connecting important
points within the county. It is very
easy, after all, to affect connection
in building such roads so as to have
highways, just as Bamberg's link of
government road wilf connect up the
Columbia-Savannah highway.
CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN?
The suicide of Dr. Wilkins in New
York State the other day presents an
interesting problem in psychology.
The doctor had been tried and convicted
of the murder of his wife. He
stoutly maintained that he was innocent.
Shortly after his conviction by
the jury, he succeeded in procuring a
rope by means not yet known with
which he hanged himself in the bathroom
of the jail in which he was ini
carcerated.
The psychological part of it comes
wTion nne trips tn fienirft out wheth
er the doctor suicided because he was
guilty or because he was not guilty.
He left a note proclaiming anew his
innocence, saying that he preferred
to be his own executioner and would
save the judge embarrassment in the
anticipated refusal of a new trial.
Will a man preparing to die make a
false statement? Or, would an innocent
man commit suicide?
JAY BIRD OR PREACHER.
The story of the Georgia preacher
who shot a jay bird which was disturbing
church services has gone the
Tounds of the press of the country.
Favorable and unfavorable criticism
has been meted out to the parson for
this act. Now the deacons of the
church come forward with a statement
that there was nothing to get
excited about, and this is true. The
amount of publicity given the subject
shows what little things the American
mind can busy itself with while
big things are going unnoticed every
day. The jay bird was in the church
and insisted on squawking, and it
was simply a matter of whether the
bird or the preacher was to entertain
the congregation. The preacher decided
that he had the privilege of
the floor and downed the jay. That's
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an mere is 10 it. .*111 mc ca^ucuiciu
seems to have been elsewhere.
In spite of the opposition President
Wilson has had from many so-called
statesmen, he has been *0 Europe and
he has accomplished what he went to
Europe for. The stars and stripes
mean more to the world today than
ever before.
The State Press association is in
session in Greenville this week.
Greenville is a very hospitable place,
and the royal entertainment acorded
on a former occasion makes it a mat.ter
of rerget for those who cannot
attend this year.
While the city authorities are prepsfring
to improve and beautify Main
street, let's pot overlook the fact that
there are other improvements to be
made in Bamberg. There are some
unsightly?to say nothing of unhealthy?ditches
in Bamberg that should
be removed. And let's be certain r ot
to forget those waterspouts on Main
street sidewalks every time it rains.
Also?we tremble to agam mention
it?tho awninps were necer put up
on Main street to accommodate the
tall man, or the medium, for that
matter.
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WELL PLANNED ESCAPE.
How French Nurse Foiled German
Third Degree.
Condemned to death by the Germans
for her efforts in behalf of
fugitive French soldiers Mademoiselle
L'Hotellier, directrice of the
General Hospital at Cambrai, was
spared, but she was fated to undergo
all that Prussian ingenuity could devise
to compel her to betray her
| associates. She Was hustled from
one German prison to another and
subjected to the grossest hardships,
but her spirit never quailed, and finally
she escaped, triumphantly returning
to France still guarding her
secrets. Her own story, one of the
most gripping of the innumerable
tales of French women's heroism,
was given Ida M. Tarbell, who . recounts
it in the July number of the
New Red Cross Magazine.
Of her escape from Valenciennes,
Mademoiselle L'Hotellier told Miss
Tarbell:
"I was so frightfully ill they all
thought I would die but I meant to
live?I meant to live and escape.
For six months I worked on my plans.
As I grew better I could walk a little
and they let me go into the garden.
Finally I asked them to let me
put on my nurse's costume, for curiously
enough in all my wanderings
my belongings had gone with me,
even to my umbrella. I walked in
the garden day after day quite naturally,
until the guards were used to
me. Then one day I walked out of
the garden into the town. The guards
did not notice. The sisters closed
their eyes. I did this often always
returning until one day I walked out
as usual, nothing in my hands, and
did not return. I walked on and on
through Valencinnes into the country
toward Belgium. Everybody supposed
me a lady on an errand of mercy.
Sometimes I asked a lift from the
Germans themselves. I rode in their
canions; I slept sometimes in their
quarters.
I In the midst of her flight the armistice
was signed and Madamoiselle
L'Hotellier found it possible to repair
directly to Cambrai. There she found
her hospital uninhabitable but she
was still directrice and her staff rallied
about with the greeting: "We
knew you would come; we knew they
never could conquer you," and short
ly she was again at work for the
wounded and sick in new quarters,
for all the world as though nothing
had happened.
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Breaking It Gently.
"I paint what I see," an art-student
once said to his master, complacently.
"Well, tlie shock will come when
you really see what you've painted,"
said the artist.?Boston Transcript.
Moving Letters.
First Pater?"My hoy's letter from
college always send me to the dictionary."
Second Pater?"That's nothing!
My boy's always send me to the
bank."?Boston Transcript.
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A MODEL JAILERESS.
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Charities and Corrections Board
Praises Local Jail Management.
Following is the report of the State
Board of Charities and Corrections
on the Bamberg jail, in which the
jail management of Mrs. Edgar Dick- j
inson is very highly praised, but in
which suggestions for improvement
of the plant are made:
"Mrs. Edgar Dickinson, jaileress.
Visited May 12, 1919, by Assistant
Secretary Broyles. Prisoners, 1 white
male and 3 negro males, 2 of the latter
being government prisoners.
"In making inspections in South
Carolina we are frequently told that
the jailer would do a great deal better
if he had a decent building with
which to work, and many claims as
to the impossibility of keeping the
old-fashioned, obsolete wooden buildings
clean and advanced, but whenever
we hear this we think of the
Bamberg jail, which proves that any
type of building can be kept neat,
sanitary and attractive. It is a real
pleasure to visit this plant, and see
its management in operation, and it
certainly should act as a great incentive
to the men jailers of the State.
In active management we have no
suggestions to make to Mrs. Dickinson.
"Coming to the plant itself, the
story is entirely different. The building
is dangerous from fire, a wooden
stair being the only means of exit
from the prison section. The walls
have been whitewashed, but nearly
all of this has fallen off. The beds,
except for whites, have not been furn?i
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Card Report
I. JAIL PLANT: PERMANENT FEA'
1. Location
2. Separation of prisoners' quart<
idence .*
3. Prisoners' quarters:
(1). Fire hazard
(2). Ventilation
(3). Facilities for classificatioi
(4). Sanitary facilities ..
(5). Cell facilities and type
(Total score under Section I.)
II. SHERIFF'S MANAGEMENT: M:
1. Jailer's general duties
2. Records of prisoners
3. Prisoners' quarters: Conditio:
4. Classification of prisoners
5. Personal hygiene of prisoners.
6. Prisoners' food and feeding
7. Discipline and occupation of p:
(Total score under Section II.).
III. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AN!
1. Jail's equipment and repair..
2. Medical service for prisoners...
3. Financial management
(Total score under Section III.)
Complete score on this jail
Chaingang Report.
"Mr. J. R. Morris, foreman. Visit
ed May 12, 1919, by Assistant Secretary
Broyles. Twenty-three men, of
whom all are negroes except one,
who is a jvhite man now acting as a
guard, and who sleeps with the other
guards. Seven men are trusties.
Camped about three miles from Bamberg
on the Ehrhardt road.
"We are sorry to report that there
has been little change in conditions
at the Bamberg camp since our inspection
of 1918. The county has not
yet provided a stove for cooking, and
open fire being used, a piece of iron
culvert 'forming a rude and ineffective
shelter in rainy weather. Only
five or six counties now attempt to
run a camp without a stove, properly
sheltered, and no county should
expose the prisoners to the danger of
improperly prepared food, or no food
at all in bad weather, because of a
mistaken desire to save money which
should be spent in equipping the
camp with necessary equipment. This
is the chief fault in the commissioners'
management. In the foreman's
management, the outstanding fault
is the lack of care in the disposal of
sewerage and other waste products of
the camp. The pit into which the
sewerage buckets are dumped was
18 steps, or yards, from the tent in
j which the convicts slept, and the
waste was not properly covered with
earth each day as it should have
Score Car
I. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND
1. The camp and its equipment:
(1). Guards' quarters
(2). Convicts' quarters
(3). Kitchen
(4). Storeroom
(5). Stock adequately sheltere
2. The Convicts:
(1). Medical attention
(2). Records of convicts
(3). Convicts' food and feedin
(4). Classification as required
(5). Ten per cent, off for goo
3. Miscellaneous
(Total score under Section 1.)
II. FOREMAN'S MANAGEMENT: M
1. Camp and equipment: Conditi
(1). Campgrounds
(2). Guards' quarters
(3). Convicts' quarters
pads, blankets being the only bedding.
The windows are not screened
against flies and mosquitoes. No facilities
have been provided for the
safe keeping of insane inmates. There
are no flush toilets and no bath tubs
in the building. The medical service
is far below standard in quantity, the
doctor not being employed to examine
the prisoners upon commitment,
or to make regular inspections
of the institution, but is hired to
i serve only for special cases of sickness,
on call from the jailer. We
recommend that these suggestions
made above be adopted by the supervisor
and commissioners, but we
do not believe the inside of the jail
should be whitewashed, but should
be painted instead, the board walls
being smooth, and not suited to hold
j whitewash securely. A good quality
* of white or cream-colored paint
should be used. For bedding we
; recommend the purchase of some cotI
ton pads with slip covers made of
| ticking to protect them again dirt and
wear. These covers can be taken off
and washed whenever they may be
i soiled, and in addition to thus lending
themselves to the jailer's efforts
to make the building a model of neatness
they will pay for themselves
many times by the saving on the
wear on the pads themselves.
"From what we can learn, the
county authorities having the jail under
their charge do not enter into
sympathy with the splendid efforts 6f
Mrs. Dickinson as they should. In
her work she is badly handicapped
by the miserable building, but she
has done a remarkable work for her
prisoners and deserves the unqualified
support of every man and woman
of Bamberg county."
on County Jail.
rURES: Possible. Actual.
15 15
srs from jailer's res
10 0
45 14
70 62
a 100 65
100 34
60 55
400 245
ETHODS AND RESULTS:
50 36
30 27
as 70 '69
80 80
: 80 79
65 64
risoners 25 25
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400 380
D THE JAIL:
110 67
80 13
10 0
200 80
1000 705
] been. The slop barrel in tlje center
i of camp was about a foot deep with
j swill, but was entirely uncovered and
! open to flies. A hole had been dug
: out about 10 or 15 feet from the
! cooking place, and into this hole dirty
water and slop is poured freely.
; The result of these several kinds of
| carelessness is obvious. As naturally
i follows the camp was swarming with
| flies, and the foreman stated that he
, had tried every kind of commercial
disinfectant he could hear of to rid
! the camp of them, but without efI
feet. If he will clean up the camp,
and keep it-clean, he will have no
flies. Lancaster county has a larger
camp than Bamberg's, and keeps
many head of stock in camp also,
but there are no flies because the
place is clean.
"We recommend that the foreman
make the convicts clean tne camp
thoroughly, and that he give close attention
to keeping the place sanitary.
In addition to the matters sugested
! above which need improvement, we
! recommend that he have all blankets
! in use washed at least monthly; that
! every newly committed convict be
: given clean blankets for his bed;
! and finally, that the filthy, disgusting
! practice of allowing three men to
bathe in the same tub of water be
stopped. More than one man should
never be allowed to use the same water,
especially when the men bathe
j as seldom as convicts do, and are as
j dirty as convicts get."
d Report.
CHAINGANG: Possible. Actual.
25 20
105 66
50 15
15 15
d .. ... o 3
65 13
30 0
g 70 50
by law 60 60
d conduct 50 50
25 4
500 296
ETHODS AND RESULTS:
ons:
10 7
10 9
80 55
(4). Kitchen and equipment 15 12
(5). Storeroom 10 8
(6). Stock ? 5 5
2. Camp sanitation:
(1). 'Water supply: sources unsuspicious 30 25tf
(2). Disposal of sewerage 50 29
(3). Disposal of manure 3>0 0
(4). Disposal of kitchen refuse 1,0 6
3. The convicts: ,
(1). Personal hygiene 75 53 ^ .
(2). Discipline 150 116
(3). Records 25 13
(Total score under Section II.) 500 338
Complete score on this chaingang 1000 634
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